Bible Psychodrama - See Wha' Happ'n Was (Exodus 1:6-11)
How do you go from riding high one day (Exodus 41:41-43) to being a slave the next, give or take two hundred years. By God's grace and providence, Joseph rose to second in command to Pharoah. He helped settle his dad (Jacob) and his brothers in Egypt; eventually moving them out of the projects of Goshen into a gated community in Pharoah's neighborhood.
When Joseph and his generation died, the people continued to increase and multiply meaning they were a numerous and productive people. They were a numerous and productive people in a land that God never promised them. But they had settled there and were so full of comfort and joy they didn't notice the gradual changing of the guard that began to see their prosperity as a menace to society.
Now though the new Pharaoh who never heard "I Have a Dream" felt threatened by the Israelites he did not want them to leave (Exodus 1:10); they were too productive. There's nothing like being served to make one feel special.
He and those of like mind knew that in order to lessen the threat you had to lessen the power or better yet redirect it to building and maintaining the systems and structures of the land that was not their own.
Little by little the mis-education of the Hebrew took place hold. Over the course of a time, Pharoah waged a battle for the hearts and minds of the Hebrews. Little by little their power was redirected to the point they had none for themselves. They were dominated by the images, values and systems that were not their own but that they had settled for when they thought they had found the good life.
You must hand it to Pharoah; to turn the tables like that; to have a numerous and productive people at your command; why that is one shrewd move.
When Joseph and his generation died, the people continued to increase and multiply meaning they were a numerous and productive people. They were a numerous and productive people in a land that God never promised them. But they had settled there and were so full of comfort and joy they didn't notice the gradual changing of the guard that began to see their prosperity as a menace to society.
Now though the new Pharaoh who never heard "I Have a Dream" felt threatened by the Israelites he did not want them to leave (Exodus 1:10); they were too productive. There's nothing like being served to make one feel special.
He and those of like mind knew that in order to lessen the threat you had to lessen the power or better yet redirect it to building and maintaining the systems and structures of the land that was not their own.
Little by little the mis-education of the Hebrew took place hold. Over the course of a time, Pharoah waged a battle for the hearts and minds of the Hebrews. Little by little their power was redirected to the point they had none for themselves. They were dominated by the images, values and systems that were not their own but that they had settled for when they thought they had found the good life.
You must hand it to Pharoah; to turn the tables like that; to have a numerous and productive people at your command; why that is one shrewd move.
